What happened in Tanjong Pagar with the Opposition wouldn't have happened elsewhere, Alex Au says:

It concerns me very much that the news story by the Online Citizen Why SDA team missed deadline may give a poor impression of opposition parties in general. It would be grievously unfair. I too was an assentor, but for the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), and my experience with them could not be more different from what happened with the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) team at Tanjong Pagar group representation constituency described in the above-linked article. Hence, I am going to relate below, in diary form, my experience, which I believe is a lot more typical of the long-standing opposition parties like the SDP, the Workers’ Party and the National Solidarity Party (NSP). I would hate it if Singaporeans came to believe the shambles at Tanjong Pagar represented the organisational quality of the rest. Going by The Online Citizen’s story of the Ng Teck Siong team’s ab...